HeyJaredChez Moi with Trish Deseine
I write about life in the beautiful Perche region of Normandy, decorating my new home, designing my garden, food, Paris, travel, brocanting, being in my sixties, & soon, “retired”. Join me!
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An excerpt from ‘French Country Cooking’ (opens the original)
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Beam me up already (opens the original)
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Living in the moment is, we’re often told, the healthiest way to navigate a life, but this current moving and planning anticipation is simply too delicious to refuse. My children had planned to come stay again before I move on 7th October, but I’m done. It’s over! I prefer to keep the happy memories we have together in the house than spend any time in what would inevitably be nostalgia mode. So I’ll go to see them, and besides, what’s not to like about a quick trip to Paris? Thanks to the warm w
L’état des lieux (opens the original)
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Hooray, I have a confirmed completion date! It’s the 7th of October, I’m signing the Acte de Vente for this house in the morning and for my new one in the afternoon. Packing up the van on the 6th, unloading in my new home on the 8th. At last my brain is properly in forward motion, and it’s easy to say now, I know, with so much hindsight. But not only did I never quite fall in love with this run-down little farm, for reasons I can’t go into here, the vibe was always slightly off. That said, I am
Thwarted dreams, some new ones and a mousse au chocolat (opens the original)
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It’s blowing a gale and the rain is pelting down as I write, and I’m glad of my early morning walk, bathed in balmy sunshine and robin song. I also cut the “lawn”, finally giving up on any chance of the cosmos I planted (who put on a fabulous show right up to the first frosts last year) breaking through the scrappy, wizened grasses. This time last year.Today.When I last posted here, back in April, I was just about to put the house on the market in preparation for my Carpe Die
Five things I’ve learned about buying and selling houses in rural France. (opens the original)
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This is an archived post from early autumn 2024, as I was moving into my little farmhouse in le Perche. Nothing went to plan, so I made other plans, and now, in autumn 2026, I am moving house again. All about that, and if I followed any of my own advice, in my next posts. *********Over the past twenty years, I have moved homes like a snake shedding skin. For fifteen of those, the fallout of being a single mum, deep in the trenches of pre and post-divorce lawfare, added to the relentless decline
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